State attorney general names special prosecutor to review Tom Corbett's handling of Jerry Sandusky case

The state's new attorney general had pledged during her campaign to examine how governor handled the case when he was attorney general.

Gov. Tom Corbett was attorney general in 2009 when he started a probe of Jerry… (Harry Fisher, THE MORNING…)

February 05, 2013

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane has appointed a former federal prosecutor to lead the office's internal investigation into how the Penn State child sex-abuse case was handled.

H. Geoffrey Moulton Jr. will serve as a special deputy attorney general, reporting directly to Kane.

The abuse scandal centering on former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, convicted last year as a serial child molester, staggered the Penn State community.

During her campaign, Democrat Kane pledged to investigate how Republican Gov. Tom Corbett handled the Sandusky case when he was attorney general. The investigation took nearly three years.

Moulton "is a highly respected former federal prosecutor who will assist us in providing a comprehensive and independent examination of the facts surrounding the handling of the Sandusky investigation," Kane said. "Once the facts have been uncovered, my office will make these findings available to the public."

Moulton, an associate professor at Widener University School of Law, spent eight years as a federal prosecutor, with four as first assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

In that capacity, he was responsible for the day-to-day operation of an office of 130 lawyers, supervised all major cases and served as a principal point of contact with state and federal law enforcement agencies.

From 2009 through 2011, Moulton served in the federal government in Washington, first as chief counsel to U.S. Sen. Ted Kaufman of Delaware.

Moulton then served as chief of staff and deputy special inspector general for the office of special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

In 1993, as the project director for the U.S. Treasury Department, Moulton prepared a report concerning the failed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.

Moulton is a former United States Supreme Court law clerk who worked for former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.

Moulton earned his undergraduate degree from Amherst College and his law degree from the Columbia University School of Law, where he was on the Law Review.